Relatively recent BBC4 documentaries regarding popular music from the 1970’s to the early 1980’s have once again got me fixated on that I would call the pivotal moment in leaving a world that believed in the future into becoming one that is incredibly despondent, yet whilst being lit-up with an end-of-the-world-selfishness to paper over theContinue reading “‘Another Lonely Night. Stare at TV Screen’”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Stories From Forgotten Space (March)
Stories From Forgotten Space builds on 2014 Mapmaking with the aim of taking the most prominent features of the project a little further. “Passing through the Thornes area of Wakefield. Leafy, inner-city suburbia, with sun shining on rooftops. Like many things from a surface level inspection, it should all feel right/OK. But it just doesn’t.”Continue reading “Stories From Forgotten Space (March)”
A Cognitive Austerity
A Cognitive Austerity, ink on paper, A4
The Parasites of Pessimism 2015
I wrote this over a year back, but I have re-posted it as I feel it’s the most sufficient thing I have on me to try to persuade people away from allowing their misery-filled hearts to guide them into re-electing the Tories. I beg you to watch this entire film tonight before you go toContinue reading “The Parasites of Pessimism 2015”
Not Humanly Possible
Not Humanly Possible, A4, ink on paper
Surfaces of an (Un)realised World
‘The past is another world’. Indeed it is, full of lost what-might-have-beens. I cannot even begin to estimate how many calories and hours were put into making these works that were heading in a more-painterly/sculptural direction, nor the lost might-have-beens that may have constituted an alternative usage of that time. Dating from the bright-eyed-dawn ofContinue reading “Surfaces of an (Un)realised World”
Stories From Forgotten Space (January)
Stories From Forgotten Space builds on 2014 Mapmaking with the aim of taking the most prominent features of the project a little further. 8 January “Lane Head Road, just past the village of Cawthorne, will, for me, forever-be the gateway to the bleak hilltops above our towns, which possesses a symbolic power over me, whichContinue reading “Stories From Forgotten Space (January)”
3 Days of Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record in London
Reflections gathered from performance in the Anti-Gallery Show, weekend 16,17,18, January 2015 This text is a reflection on the performing of Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record – inspired by Ivor Southwood’s book Non-Stop Inertia. Part of a wider collaborative project between myself and Leeds-based artist/curator John Wright, Non-Stop Inertia was played intermittently over a 3Continue reading “3 Days of Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record in London”
2014 mapmaking (part 9) – End of Year Haunting
This is the 9th and the final post of 2014 in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be usefulContinue reading “2014 mapmaking (part 9) – End of Year Haunting”
‘Feverish’
Feverish (2014, ballpoint pen on paper)
John B Ledger 